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Daði Bjarnason

Lagahvoll

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Position: Partner
Rating:
  • Highly regarded
Bar Admissions:
Iceland
Practice Areas:
Banking
Jurisdictions:
Biography

Daði is a district court lawyer with a further education in financial and company law from King .s College London. Daði has a degree in securities brokerage and has many years of work experience in the financial market.

Deals
  • Merger between FoodCo and Gleðipinnar. Private acquisition; Value: ISK 2 billion. Year: 2019-2020.

 

Career Highlights
  • Lagahvoll, owner, 2012
  • Chief lawyer of the Resolution Committee and Winding-up Board of Sparisjóðabanki Íslands hf., 2009 - 2011
  • Head of the Legal Department of Sparisjóðabanki Íslands hf., 2006-2009
  • Lawyer and compliance officer of Sparisjóðabanki Íslands hf., 2002-2005
  • Lawyer at the Icelandic Securities Depository hf., 1999-2002
  • Part-time lecturer at the University of Iceland and Continuing Education at the University of Iceland, 2000-2002
Practice areas
  • Banking
  • M&A
  • Corporate Law
  • Private equity
  • Restructuring and insolvency
Sector specialisations
  • Banking
  • Private acquisition
  • Food and beverage
Address:
Reykjavík
Tel:+354 519 7661 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:http://www.lagahvoll.is/english

Related Practitioners

  • Joined Lagahvoll slf. in January 2014. Prior to joining Lagahvoll slf. Mr. Sigurðsson worked at MP banki as Head of Legal and Compliance from 2006 and then head of Corporate Development from September 2011. Before joining MP banki, Mr. Sigurðsson worked as Head of Legal and Compliance at Icebank from 1999. He has a LLM degree in Corporate Law from New York University Law School and passed the Icelandic Bar Exam in 2002 and the New York Bar Exam in 2003. Mr. Sigurðsson has served as board member for a number of Icelandic and international companies. He is also a certified stock broker and a committee Member on Complaints Committee on Transactions with Financial Firms.